SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who led an effort to help those ravaged by violence in Iraq fell victim to the war herself when a car bomb killed her and two other people, officials said Sunday.

Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, died Saturday in the blast, which also killed an Iraqi and another foreigner, officials said. She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country.

Ruzicka, 28, of Lakeport, founded CIVIC in 2003 and was instrumental in securing millions of dollars in aid money from the federal government for distribution in Iraq.

GUARANTEE !! The neocommunist,anti-Americans will suggest that this was the work of the CIA.

My bet, of course, is that she was so concerned about the decrease in US casualties that she misread the insurgents' orders of the day and forgat to avoid a place where she knew a blast would take place.

That is mean don't think after all she just died. Her actions right or wrong did help many needy people. I have respect for her since she was trying to help people in need unlike many who do nothing. She took the risk and paid the ultimate price. God bless her.

What she did was undermine our war effort and help put our troops in evengreater danger.

Her exit from the scene is a blessing for those of us who have loved ones in Iraq who are doing the real humanitarian work - soldiering.

There are plenty of people in Iraq who are not conducting polls for Code Pink, or getting themselves profiled in Vanity f***ing Fair, or interrupting Secretary Rumsfeld in front of the cameras to grandstand, or getting the vile Senator Leahy, when he visited Baghdad, to hire them as his aide in Washington.

They are actually feeding the sick, nursing the wounded, teaching the ignorant. And you'll never see them in a featured Yahoo story.

She did help? Who? How did she help....I have serious doubts that she helped anyone but herself and her puppet masters. Reminds me of that group of creepy 9/11 Widows. Who did they help, if not only themselves...got any answers Orange?

Ruzicka, then 25, had already forged a reputation in leftist circles. She once had disrupted a speech on AIDS by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Another time, she was hauled off by police after she ripped off a sarong -- which inside had a protest statement -- during a speech by then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

"(I prefer ladies from the TV food network). ". There is no woman there personally for me....the wife watches it and I offen comment on their personna's....One I cant stand is Rachael Ray....she looks ok but I cant stand her voice and her manner in general.....and there is one who has a huge head on a pencil neck and tiny body...strange....

"....door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country."

Where was she when Saddam was in power???!!!!

These liberal goof-balls that only try to find fault with the U.S. and are silent when the real atrocities are happening.

Makes me think she and people like her are political versus truly trying to help the Iraqi people. She is using the Iraqi people to further her hate America agenda. If only groups like hers had protested Saddam before the war, there might have not been any war at all.

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